“The best ideas in education are never going to come from Washington,” he said. “They’re always going to come from the local level.” Arne Duncan
What a fucking idiot ! Duncan’s $4.35 billion dollar Race to the Top plan was hatched in his own head. His plan takes more local control away from local school districts and give “Washington” greater control. Furthermore, why is that states have to compete for a piece of the Race to the Top pie ? Why can’t individual schools compete for a piece if the pie? Nearly $900,000,000.00 million dollars of Race to the Top find will go to administrative fees from the states DOEs, school districts, charter school management companies. Markell will reduce the states budget for public schools and supplant it with federal monies.
“Delaware has a chance, I think, to lead the country. This is a state of manageable size. … Delaware can help lead us where we need to go,” said Duncan.
Yes, federal takeover pushing Duncan plan for one uniform set of standards nationwide followed by one standardized test hold teachers accountable not governors, state DOE’s, superintendents, principals, and failed business plans such as the business roundtable’s DSTP. Local school boards along with teachers will be the first to take the fall. WE DON’T NEED A FEDERAL DSTP!
Duncan said he also wants to push the agenda for the K-12 side of education, and the money to drive that change has to be dramatically increased.
Duncan wants “change” to drive federal takeover of public schools beyond federally funded programs. Just like NCLB, ADWA (Arne Duncan Wants it All) his vision won’t come with 100% funding which will draw from local tax dollars. What we invision won’t be reality until we can pay for it.
“Simply propping up the status quo doesn’t get us as a country where it needs to go,” he said.
What a fuck-stick! Duncan comes to town to support Rodel’s mission led by their puppet Jack Markell who charged $50.00 a ticket. Also, how much did it cost the taxpayers to cover the cost of all those from DOE and the school districts like Merv who should be at their desk doing their real jobs not serving Rodel? Why was this event on a school day? Why wasn’t it free like at the Carpenter Center? Surely Skipper could have footed the bill.
The $4.35 billion stimulus is a great opportunity on the local level, and his education department is looking for states that are willing to raise the bar, he said.
Dip-shit Duncan, we did that with DSTP long before NCLB and Governor Carper bent over for the business roundtable who crafted DSTP. Also, it was the researchers at the U of D who stepped up and proclaimed DSTP flawed and forces teachers to teach to the test.
In addition, Duncan addressed the need to improve student assessments, to open schools beyond six hours a day, five days a week and nine months a year, to continue teaching the arts within the school curriculum, and to make sure the best teachers go to places where they are needed.
McFly McDuncan, you’re talking increasing education funding by a least 25%! That’s 250 million dollars from the state, 65 million dollars from local taxpayers, 225 billion dollars from the feds. How in the fuck are you going to put the best teachers where needed when you assoicated schools of high poverty that often struggle in part due to social events beyond the school doors?
“There are no good schools without good principals,” Duncan said during a question-and-answer session. “They just don’t exist. So you can argue that this is the most important thing you can do.
The assignment of principals is done by the superintendents and approved by the school boards. Those asignments in most part are done based on who will kiss the superundents’ asses and keep their mouths shut. Principals are giving budgets but at told how and when to spend them.
”His focus on some local control and allowing districts and states to approach things is refreshing,” Meney said.
George get your head out of your ass! Duncan wants more charter schools in the Colonial School District because your teachers like all others throughout Delaware have failed students. George, why is RTT tied to requirements states will increase more charter schools?
Tuesday’s conference, titled “Vision 2015 and Delaware’s Race to the Top,” also included speakers such as Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and Paul Herdman, chairman of the Rodel Foundation, a major financial backer of Vision 2015, an education reform plan that seeks to make Delaware a world leader in education by that year.
There you have it, Jack Markell and his puppet masters. Many of the same ass-wipes who pushed former Governor Tom Carper to sign DSTP that was crafted by the business roundtable. Markell Markell “recveived 1,000′s of $$$$$$$$$$$$$ campaign from the founders of Rodel and Markell was molded by the as a Rodel Fellow at the Aspen institute where WBD is a board member . ” Governor Markell is a Henry Crown Fellow and a Rodel Fellow at the Aspen Institute.”
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